Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Shazam
The 20 closest music recognition alternatives to Shazam, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Shazam? The closest matches are JioSaavn, Audiomack and Strava. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Shazam
Shazam shazam.com
Shazam - Music Discovery, Charts & Song Lyrics
Identify the music playing around you. Explore the music you love. Discover songs, lyrics, and artists on Shazam.
Wikidata: music application
Summary by Claude
Shazam is a music recognition app that identifies songs from a short audio sample captured by a device microphone, and its website shows music charts, lyrics, artist pages and concert information.
- Who it’s for
- Music listeners worldwide
- Business model
- Free app owned by Apple, driving Apple Music subscriptions and affiliate referrals
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Shazam’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Shazam
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Shazam, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Online Songs on JioSaavn: Download & Play Latest Music for Free
Listen to Latest and Trending Bollywood Hindi songs online for free with JioSaavn anytime, anywhere. Download or listen to unlimited new & old Hindi songs online. Search from most trending, weekly top 15, Hindi movie songs, etc on JioSaavn.
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Audiomack - Music platform empowering artists & fans | Audiomack
Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free.
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Strava | Running, Cycling & Hiking App - Train, Track & Share
Strava connects millions of runners, cyclists, hikers, walkers and other active people through the sports they love – all on our mobile app and website.
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Genius
American digital media company
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Last.fm | Play music, find songs, and discover artists
The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm
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website for sharing musical scores
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Deezer | 1 Month Free | Music Streaming app online
Try Deezer at 0EUR! 120+ million tracks & podcasts in high resolution audio quality, ad-free, offline unlimited music and playlists. Plans from 11,99 €/month.
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Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
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Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud
Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.
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Snapchat - Say It In A Snap
Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories, and try Lenses on desktop, or download the app on mobile! See how to connect & create with friends on Snapchat, wherever you are.
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tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
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Flurry | Mobile App Analytics Platform for Android & iOS
Flurry is a mobile app analytics platform for Android & iOS that empowers product, development and growth experts to build better apps that users love.
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Calorie Tracker & BMR Calculator to Reach Your Goals | MyFitnessPal
Reach your health, fitness & weight goals with MyFitnessPal, the #1 nutrition tracking app. Macro & calorie calculator, food tracker, and fasting app in one. Download today!
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Suno | AI Music Generator
Create stunning original music for free in seconds using our AI generator. Make your own masterpieces, share with friends, and discover music from artists worldwide.
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ZEDGE: We Make Phones Personal
Download free ringtones, HD wallpapers, backgrounds, icons and games to personalize your cell phone or mobile device using the Zedge app for Android and iPhone.
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TradingView — Track All Markets
Where the world charts, chats, and trades markets. We're a supercharged super-charting platform and social network for traders and investors. Free to sign up.
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product discovery website
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Samba TV
online service
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GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to shazam.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Shazam uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Shazam is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kiad7000160-IAD, cache-ber1080037-BER
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-281.awsdns-35.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=NdPS0nBKeb2_iHMIF9EZI9_2_BJT4riV28HBfejaBnQ
- Miro TXT miro-verification=d1d0b47609d145dc9d6a624dd41a905814a1c1ac
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Shazam adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on shazam.com 16/20
- Atlassian · not on shazam.com 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on shazam.com 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on shazam.com 10/20
- Zendesk · not on shazam.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on shazam.com 9/20
- Next.js 7/20
- React 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on shazam.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on shazam.com 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on shazam.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on shazam.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on shazam.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on shazam.com 5/20